Posted on 02/24/2017 7:12:36 AM PST by blam
• TripAdvisor has released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, naming the 25 best beaches in the US.
• Florida's Siesta Key Beach claims the title of America's best beach, followed by coastal stretches across the country in Hawaii, California, Georgia, and more.
• TripAdvisor also found the cheapest month to visit each beach destination, and the average rate for a hotel room there.
The world is full of gorgeous beaches, so it's easy to forget that the US has some spectacular beaches of its own — especially if you don't live along the coast.
TripAdvisor's 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, which names the 25 best beaches in the country, serves as a reminder. The selected beaches — based on millions of reviews from travelers using the website between 2015 and 2016 — are sprinkled across the nation in places like Cape Cod and Honolulu.
TripAdvisor has also figured out the cheapest month of the year to travel to each destination, as well as the average cost of a night in a hotel, to help you organize a trip.
Here are the top-rated beaches to prompt your vacation planning:
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My m-i-l used to have a place on the Gulf.
We ended up with vacations we could NEVER have afforded since we could stay with her.
I am so grateful for those opportunities.
I’m a little glad that not many of my favorite FL beaches made the list..
Beautiful beaches hatteras, old spanish ships timber in the sand, however, the sand is course, many riptides too, siesta key, sanibel island for exotic shells, ft pierce, destin...sugar sand..long stretches of public beach..wish florida had adopted hawaiis rules, no private ownership of beaches, all business have to provide parking and access for public to their property’s beaches..
No Michigan beach? Fake news.
The Florida Panhandle.
I’ll throw my two cents in:
1. The black sand beach on Hana Bay on the island of Maui—particularly the part behind the Hana Kai Maui. Idyllic.
2. Papohaku Beach on the west end of Molokai. It is a golden strand two to three miles long, and it is possible that you will have it all to yourself. Not many people visit Molokai. When we were there, two other people were present. They soon left, leaving the entire beach for ourselves.
“Northwest Florida has the best beaches in the world.”
They are beautiful.
There are no private beaches in NC, they’re all public. Oceanfront property ends with the dune line. The only restrictions you’d ever run into would be the few private islands such as Bald Head Island or Figure Eight Island. Even there, no one individual owns the beach, they’re open for all on the island.
Yes, my wife agrees. She is a tar heel.
We have spent a week on Wrightsville Beach for a number of years.
Best way to go...love nc beaches , family owned clam and scallop trawlers out of wanchese..
LOL. None on the Great Lakes?
Have you been to Nuce or Hawaii? If not you can’t make that statement
My Daughter, SIL and Grandchildren near Ft. Walton Bch.
Yes indeed
OBX is fantastic. Gotta like a beach (~60 miles long) whose obligatory rules signs basically say “just don’t be stupid” (no fireworks, dogs must be leashed, no hard liquor, stay off the dunes). Heck, the beach itself is legally a road; I want to buy a fat-tire Jeep just to drive there.
The qualifier here is US beeches.
If you are expanding the criteria world wide, Hawaii barely even makes the list.
ANY Pacific atoll leaves any US sandy spot sorely lacking. There simply is no comparison.
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